Re: problems build root on OSX against non-system python version

Chris Jones <jonesc_at_hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> They already are, just not as 'python'. They are available as
> 'python2.6' and 'python2.7'. MacPorts supports multiple python
> versions so cannot just call them 'python'.

Hmm, that seems rather unusual. How do scripts starting with "#!/usr/bin/env python" ever get run on such a system?

Anyways, in your build environment you can define "python" to be an alias or as a bash function and have it point to the desired "python2.X".

-Brett.